Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and popular historian. Her 1942 feminist Gothic novel, The Uninvited, was adapted for the screen by Hollywood in 1944. The editor of Tramp Press's republication of Dark Enchantment (1953), Caroline Heafey, will speak on the author’s work. Tramp Press was launched in Dublin by Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen in 2014.
Gina Marie Guadagnino's debut novel, The Parting Glass (Simon & Schuster, 2019) is a story that explores identity, social class, and sexuality in the Irish diaspora of New York in the 1830s. Praise for The Parting Glass “In this delectable debut, Guadagnino uses romance and thwarted desire to vividly recreate the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. “…
Irish Writers in the Irish American Press (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) spans the period from Oscar Wilde’s 1882 American lecture tour to the months following JFK’s assassination and covers the century in which Irish American identity was shaped by immigration, religion, politics, and economic advancement. Through a close engagement with Irish American periodicals, Dr. Stephen Butler offers a more nuanced…